Atos coordinates European project FlexiGroBots to foster the use of robotics in agriculture
Paris, France and Madrid, Spain – April eight, 2021,
Atos today announces that it is coordinating and actively contributing to the European project “FlexiGroBots”. This initiative aims to empower robot-makers, engineers and services companies to establish and deploy multi-robot unitsfor the agri-food items business to assistance farmers in their each day do the job. Inside the framework of the Horizon 2020 application, the project will build an revolutionary system to aid the use of robotics through three massive-scale pilots across Europe.
The adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector has increased in the latest yrs, unleashing a new paradigm: “agriculture 4.” the place robotics, AI and automation engage in a elementary function in crop administration and precision agriculture[one] by addressing true-time selection earning and monitoring wants. Nonetheless, present robotic units are missing overall flexibility as they are created to carry out incredibly distinct missions and are not equipped to cope with other tasks nor cooperate with other robotic technologies, foremost to a lack of ROI for farmers.
The FlexiGroBots project will run about 36 months with the intention of developing and validating an open up system which supports the development of flexible and heterogeneous multi-robot units that permit multi-robot cooperation and autonomy. Robots include UAVs (unmanned aerial cars) and UGVs (unmanned floor cars).
Inside FlexiGroBots, the Atos investigate and innovation team acts as the project coordinator, guaranteeing the execution of the planned routines and the total monitoring and supervision of the project. Atos will enable offer the architecture and need investigation, lead the reference architecture and synchronize the three pilots. It acts as a technical leader and main contributor in the advancement of robotic mission control middle abilities for the style, arranging and supervision of heterogeneous multi-robot functions, which include robotic solutions enabled by Computer Eyesight tactics and in geospatial details investigation. As a member of the International Data Room Association (IDSA), Atos also functions on the advancement of details house enablers for the details administration of an industrial details house tailor-made to the agricultural context, allowing for safe details exchange across various stakeholders within just the agri-food items sector.
“This project matches flawlessly with Atos’ goal to contribute to the digitization of European industries, which include agriculture, through the advancement of revolutionary apps and solutions dependent on AI, details and trusted robotics”, feedback Daniel Calvo Alonso, Head of the ‘AI, Data and Robotics’ Unit in the Atos Investigate and Innovation office and coordinator of the FlexiGroBots project.
The FlexiGroBots system will be validated in three true pilot tasks:
- Vineyards (Spain): Demonstrate the large capability and versatility of robots to execute distinct tasks in vineyards, contributing to the high-quality of grapes for wine creation and to total financial profitability.
- Rapeseed fields (Finland): Demonstrate time-essential pest administration and robotization of heavy machinery fleets in grassland administration.
- Blueberries fields (Serbia and Lithuania): Demonstrate the prospective of revolutionary robotic options – with innovative distant sensing tactics, deep mastering and selection assistance – to improve blueberries.
Funded by the European Commission with seven million euros, FlexiGroBots provides jointly a multidisciplinary consortium built up of sixteen distinct companies and businesses from eight distinct nations around the world. For extra info, take a look at https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/
[one] Precision agriculture is a farming administration strategy dependent on observing, measuring, and responding to inter and intra-subject variability in crops.
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